Makes alive with the 2 works unique mood
Ryu Seong-Hee: You’ve confessed your love on <Decision To Leave> for several times. What’s the reason that captivates you especially for this movie?
RM: Though I’ve mentioned this in a book called <Finally, Park Chan-wook> and on <The Dictionary of Useless Knowledge>, it’s very hard to describe the reason for my likings for this movie precisely in words, now that I’ve even watched this for the 8th time. Because that’s the thing about fans, or maniacs. It just that I can become Hae-joon (Park Hae-Il), Seo-rae, mists, telescope, and handphone. Nevertheless, if I were to jot down the lists, it’s the things like the right amount of uneasiness, fascinating mise-en-scènes, the actors’ actings, the theme of fogs, and everything that’s not forced on.
Ryu Seong-Hee: You usually showed your love towards arts a lot. As an artist that made uncountable good music videos, I’m curious on how you view the <Decision To Leave>’s art, or visual images as.
RM: The set’s feel, the videos’ tone (like singer’s vocal tone), and the ways to love and death. The point of view of a handphone …. I especially really liked Seorae’s and Haejun’s house color’s impression. Though it’s just an appreciation view by a fan, not a cinephile….I just thought that it’s a work that would reach one state at a visual level. It’s really nice.
Ryu Seong-Hee: The rhythm and the breathing of a 138-minutes running-time movie with a 3 minutes and 30 seconds music are different. If there were the very most important part for this work, it’s?
RM: To make it as fitting as possible with the visual (because the song’s vibe is a bit persuasive), I changed a bit of the sound to a bit more lo-fi. I arranged it like a dramatic drama in order to be in sync with the fast-paced development and the lyric’s narrative. Because 2 minutes and 30 seconds is too short to fit in all the mists of the film. And, I had a thought that there are too many lyrics comparing to the film’s mood. I even thought of removing the entire verse’s vocal, but because it’s a collaboration which when each one of works have taken their place, so I tried to keep an eye well of the mood of these 2 works.
Ryu Seong-Hee: What’s the reason of <Closer>, a song of your solo album to works with <Decision To Leave>. Did you think that the gradually piling up emotions with the vocals was suitable with the making the epic of the movie?
RM: There’s a several thoughts going between <Change pt. 2> and <Closer>. I had a thought that <Change pt. 2>, a song with a more humid feeling that the video’s mood itself would be more suitable, it’s because it wasn’t a song that I created with the movie in mind, I come to a conclusion that <Closer> would fit, because it can contains the overall narratives of it. I thought that the overall lyrics of it is like the another world’s Hae-Joon and Seorae. There must be some people that think it doesn’t fit as the sound is a bit young and trendy. But, those who understands the lyrics and the movie’s overall story would be able to understand it. The last repeating part of “Stay where you are” is also a way for us to understand and accept the loves that couldn’t be reach, or the love and relationships that’s been sadly concluded.